February 12, 2026
AI money printer goes brrr
Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
$30B for a chatbot? Internet roasts, cheers and side‑eyes Anthropic’s mega payday
TLDR: Anthropic raised a stunning $30 billion, valuing the AI company behind Claude at $380 billion and bragging about explosive revenue growth. Commenters are split between congratulating the win, mocking the sky‑high valuation, and questioning whether this is true innovation or the latest tech bubble in the making.
Anthropic just grabbed a jaw‑dropping $30 billion in new funding, claiming a sky‑high value of $380 billion—all for Claude, its chatty artificial intelligence that writes code and helps office workers. The company boasts that in under three years it’s hit a yearly revenue pace of $14 billion and powers eight of the ten biggest companies in the world. Investors are treating it like the new tech golden child.
But online, the champagne bubbles quickly turned into popcorn. One commenter squinted at Anthropic’s brag that it’s the “clear category leader in enterprise AI” and shot back with a blunt “Citation needed”, and that became the unofficial meme of the thread. Another person flat‑out called the valuation “absolutely wild” for a company they say doesn’t have a real protective edge yet—basically asking if this is genius business or the next overhyped bubble.
Others zoomed out to the big tech power game: one user pointed out Google spends about four times this amount every year just on hardware, jokingly wondering how much of Anthropic’s billions will end up right back in Google’s pockets. And when people learned we’re already at Series G funding, the jokes wrote themselves, with one commenter warning we’re going to run out of letters. Some users offered genuine congratulations; others came for the drama, the memes, and the chance to side‑eye a $380B robot helper.
Key Points
- •Anthropic raised $30B in Series G funding at a $380B post-money valuation, led by GIC and Coatue, with multiple co-leads and broad investor participation.
- •The company reports a $14B run-rate revenue less than three years after first revenue, growing over 10x annually for each of the past three years.
- •Enterprise adoption is accelerating: customers spending over $100k grew 7x in a year, >500 customers now spend over $1M annually, and eight of the Fortune 10 use Claude.
- •Claude Code surpassed $2.5B in run-rate revenue, with weekly active users doubling since Jan 1 and an estimated 4% share of public GitHub commits, double from the prior month.
- •Anthropic launched 30+ products/features in January, including Cowork with 11 open-source plugins, and expanded Claude for Enterprise to HIPAA-covered organizations.